スパイ教室

SPY KYOUSHITSU

ANIME

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
12
RELEASE
March 30, 2023
LENGTH
26 min

DESCRIPTION

Conflict-ravaged nations now deploy covert operatives instead of missiles. Lily is recruited into spy-training… but her practical skills are absolutely abysmal. Desperate to pass, she leaps at the chance to join the mysterious “Tomoshibi” team. Too bad the team is filled with even more hopeless spies. Together they must conquer the Impassible Mission and best their genius instructor, but the true purpose behind their classroom is more harrowing than they can imagine…

(Source: HIDIVE)

CAST

Hanazono
Sora Amamiya
Yumegatari
Sumire Uesaka
Manamusume
Miku Itou
Gujin
Inori Minase
Hyojin
Aoi Yuuki
Sougen
Ayane Sakura
Bouga
Tomori Kusunoki
Hyakki
Nao Touyama
Klaus
Yuuichirou Umehara
Shikabane
Nobuhiko Okamoto
Olivia
Youko Hikasa
Uwe
Houchuu Ootsuka
Finé
Hina Kino

EPISODES

Dubbed

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REVIEWS

emmerlad
10/100
the spy guy said “it’s spying time” and then he spied all those people
The would be “Greatest Spy” ever Klaus got the job to teach 7 8 spies from incompetent girls in order to be called the “Greatest spy of all time”, completely ignoring the fact that being known as the greatest spy of all time would completely go against what spies do due to this show not understanding what a spy would do in the slightest.

To say the synopsis is right with the line “Too bad the team is filled with even more hopeless spies” is far too right. It’s ridiculous. Somehow this team of 7 8 girls is hopelessly pathetic at taking down the teacher and somehow always creates the same plan. Somehow this group managed to take down the even bigger badder spy who was always just a step ahead of the teacher.

Incompetence is funny to watch to a point, but when the show is nearly only composed of their incompetence it becomes truly infuriating to watch. It becomes even less funny when the spy teacher who is the biggest and bestest spy to ever spy can somehow clean windows faster than a team of 8 employing their talents to make it even faster, as if cleaning windows is something that can be made faster without employing more people to do it. He claims it was a part of his “spy training” fuck I wish I had spy training that made me clean up my entire house within an hour.

Do you know how children’s “imagine” games always leads to someone pulling out the “super shield that blocks everything” and after that you get the “super weapon that kills everything” and then it’s a bizarrely escalating scenario with more and more ridiculous things brought out? This is what every conflict in this show feels like “I am going to kill the spy teacher with spy things” and then the teacher goes “yes but i am more spy” and then they lose.

The girls are all quite 1 dimensional and most unmemorable. Which is not good for a wannabe “Cute Girls Doing Cute Things” -show when you compare it to shows with similar tags like Bocchi The Rock where the whole cast is extremely entertaining in their own way.
The teacher isn’t much better either. He is just perfect in every way imaginable and never loses even in trivial things.

The show had a bit of plot at the start with the 1 guy, the big spy man who spies all the people couldn’t beat as he had faked his death and allied up with another nation, but he was killed within 3 episodes. Why wasn’t this written into a bigger whole? Like why not end the show with the girls beating this ultimate spy terminator after he kills their teacher?

This show is pathetic SoL slob without any of the entertaining characters to make the show actually good. Very sloppy writing when it does have it and even that was rushed inorder to make room for this show’s horrible “Cute girls doing cute things” moments.
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Mcsuper
40/100
A Story With Potential Ruined By Poor Structure And Pacing
This show had the potential to be decent, but ended up being the massive disappointment of the season. The first three episodes basically doomed it, and even though the second half was comparatively better, my interest had already waned too much. It had the makings for a decent series, but the adaptation of the first volume of the light novel (first seven episodes) was just baffling, because they showed all their cards in Episode 3, and they did flashbacks for character development after the supposed climax, which felt so out of place. Without this poor structure in the first arc, I would definitely have enjoyed it more, but here we are.

The show revolves around a spy group called Team Lamplight, a group of seven (?) girls, and their teacher, Klaus. At first, they seemed like a disoriented bunch of fools not knowing what to do, and at the outset, the plot was revolving around the girls attempting to kill Klaus, which in the end, really went nowhere, and got repetitive very quickly. The spy missions themselves weren’t all that great either, especially in the first half. They were just simple and extremely contrived short missions with irrelevant villains that just were there to get killed. It also relies way too heavily or plot twists and shock value, which is not the best formula. It lacks an identity, it’s not funny like Spy X Family, and it certainly isn’t Assassination Classroom either, so what is it really? I don’t know if I have an answer.

The characters were all very gimmicky, and lacked real personality or growth in general. I can barely remember all their names to be honest. A lot of them felt overly sexualized, and it felt like being horny was their only attribute. A little perverseness doesn’t doom a show at all, but for this show, it really obstructed the plot and character development. It just feels like extremely lazy writing, when the writer ran out of ideas, so maybe they thought a bit of fan service will satisfy the viewers instead. I suppose some of them got better in the second half, but it’s just faint praise, really.

The animation and designs are alright, not anything special, but not bad either. As for the music, the soundtrack wasn’t all that special, but the OP and EDs were probably one of the more well done and creative aspects in the entire show.

Overall, while having an acceptable second half, the first arc’s structure just killed it entirely in my opinion. It showed its hand way too early, simple as that. Even so, the writing in general was not great, to put it lightly, and relied too much on shock value and fan service to keep the audience engaged. With better pacing, this show could have been a little better, but not by much. Even the stacked cast of voice actors couldn’t save this. A shame, really, since I heard good things about the light novels, and even though I haven’t read them, they probably didn’t do them justice at all.
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